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PhD Mohammed Loukili • PhD • 2021-2025 Others Ruobing Lang (University of Paris-Saclay) • summer research intern • 2025 Jochen Eeckhoudt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) • visiting PhD student • Jan-Apr, 2025 Cristina Dominguez Escobar (University of the Basque Country) • summer research intern • 2024 Bryan Alexis Melo Flores (University of Barcelona) • summer research intern • 2023 Ania Beatriz Rodriguez (Autonomous University of Madrid) • summer research intern • 2022 Jorge Cardenas-Gamboa (University of Barcelona) • summer research intern • 2021

ORCID: 0000-0002-5084-1321 Google Scholar Web of Science Dr. Bo Chen received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry in China in 2011 (advisors: Prof. Yun-Dong Wu and Prof. Yu-Xue Li). He then moved to the US to conduct postdoctoral research at the University of North Texas (2012-2014, advisor: Prof. Weston Borden) and Cornell University (2014-2018, advisor: Prof. Roald Hoffmann), before joining Pennsylvania State University as an Assistant Research Professor in 2018. In February 2020, he started his independent research career at the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) in Spain as an Ikerbasque Research Fellow, and was promoted to Ikerbasque Research Associate Professor in 2025. His research is characterized by the creative application of computational chemistry to interdisciplinary research at the interface of organic chemistry, materials science, and high pressure science. His recent research focuses on the effect of pressure on organic reactions in solution and in the solid state. ... Read more …

ORCID: 0000-0003-4351-5613 jorge.marques@dipc.org Jorge Laranjeira pursued his PhD at the university of Aveiro under the supervision of Dr. Leonel Marques and Dr. Manuel Melle-Franco. During his PhD he collaborated directly with international groups working under the supervision of Emilio Martínez Núñez from Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Facultade de Química and Dr. Ion Errea from Centro de Física de Materiales both situated in Spain, under the scope of the HPC-Europa3 program. He completed his European doctorate degree on March 2024 and joined the DIPC on May of the same year as a postdoctoral researcher working under the supervision of Dr. Bo Chen. His research focuses on the study of molecules and crystalline structures under pressure using ab-initio methods. ... Read more …